Stove structure



Nov. 27, 1934. J. TELLER STOVE STRUCTURE Filed April 11, 1930 Z6 ZZTVEZT/EF (faco JeZZef. @40 I 5 l'l/E.

Patented Nov. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE STOVE STRUCTURE Application April 11, 1930, Serial No. 443,291

2 Claims.

My invention relates to stove structures, particularly to an improved combination coal and gas stove or range.

The general object of the invention is to pro- 5 vide, in a combination structure of this type, im-

proved construction and arrangement which will make the operation more convenient and eflicient during cold weather when coal or wood will be the main fuel used, or in warm weather when only gas will be used as the fuel.

In range structures where wood or coal is used for fuel it has been customary to provide a hot water reservoir to be heated by contact with flue passageways, and such reservoir has usually been accommodated in a frame forming an extension or appendage to the-main body of the stove structure. This arrangement more or less upsets the balance and ornamental design of the stove structure, the modern trend being to give stove structures a more or less cabinet appearance.

An important object of my invention is, therefore, to eliminate such appendage or extension and provide warming space within the stove body for the water reservoir, so that the reservoir may be heated by contact with flue passageways, and at the same time the object is to provide a gas burner in such warming space so that the water.

reservoir may be heated solely by gas in warm weather when it will be inconvenient to use coal or wood as fuel.

A further object is to provide for the ready removal of the water reservoir from the warming space so that this space may be utilized solely as a warming closet.

Another object of the invention is to provide for readily replenishing the water reservoir or withdrawing water therefrom from the front of the stove so as to eliminate the old-fashioned method of ladling water from the top of the reservoir through an opening in the stove top.

The above enumerated and other features of my invention are incorporated in the structure disclosed on the drawing and in which drawing- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the stove structure with parts broken away; and

Figure 2 is a section on plane IIII of Figure 1.

The body of the structure shown comprises a front frame 10, a top 11, a base 12, side walls 13' and 13 and a rear wall 14. The main front frame 10 may be in the form of a casting and is set between the base 12 and the top 11. At its left side, the frame 10 has the opening 15 for access to the fire pot and ash pit. Centrally of the frame is the opening 16 for the baking oven, and to the right of this oven base are the vertical walls 17 and 18 which extend rearwardly to the rear wall 14 and are spaced to provide a flue passageway 19 which is connected in the well-known manner in the heat circulatory passageway for the products of combustion resulting from the burning of coal or wood. The inner wall 17 forms the side boundary for the oven, and between the outer wall 18 of the flue and the side wall 13 of the stove body is the space 20 forming a warming or heating closet.

The left half of the stove top is provided with the ordinary lidded circular openings 21 for supporting pots or other utensils to be heated, and the right half of the stove top supports grids 22 above the gas combustion space 23 for gas burn- 7 ers 24, the horizontal wall 25 separating this gas burning space from the warming closet 20 which extends down to the base 12 and from the front frame 10 to the rear wall 14. The connections for the burners 24 are not shown, as they form no part of the present invention. The ordinary connections may be utilized and extended through an opening 26 in the front frame 10. Between this opening 26 and the space 15, the front frame 10 has the opening 27 for access to the flue passageway for the products of combustion from the coal fire.

A wall 28 forms the bottom of the warming closet 20, and at the bottom of the closet I provide a gas burner 29 fed from a pipe 30. Above the burner I locate the water reservoir 31. In the flue wall 18 and in the side wall 13 I provide horizontal channels or grooves 32 and 33 for supporting shelves. The reservoir or tank 31 may have side flanges along its upper edges for engaging in the upper shelf grooves whereby the tank may be suspended in the warming closet. To assist in supporting the weight of the tank and contents, the tank may rest on a shelf 35. The tank is supported with its inner side in close contact with the flue wall 18, so that the heat from the flue will be conducted to the tank to rapidly warm the contents thereof. During the winter months, or cold weather, coal or wood will be mainly burned in the stove structure, and the warming closet and water reservoir will then receive heat from the flue 19. In warmer weather, when it is inconvenient to burn coal or wood, the gas burner 29 is used for heating the warming closet and the water reservoir. When quick heating is desired, the gas burner may be utilized to add its heat to that which is received from the flue when coal or wood is burned.

In order that the water reservoir may be readily filled with water, a spout or funnel lip 36 is provided on the front wall near the top thereof, and, for conveniently drawing hot water from the reservoir, a faucet 37 is provided. If the entire closet space 20 is desired to be used for warming or heating purposes, the reservoir may readily be withdrawn.

The reservoir is dimensioned so that, when it is inserted in the warming closet, there will be adequate clearance space between it and the closet walls for the upward flow of heat from the burner or from the flue, the heat escaping through openings 38 in the bottom wall of the gas burner space 23, from where it may escape through the usual channels to the stove pipe (not shown) extending from the stove structure.

The arrangement for obtaining decorative design and effect may incorporate the principles disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 428,256, filed Feb. 14, 1930. This arrangement involves the application of predecorated panels to the doors and closure members and to the spaces surrounding said doors and members, so that the entirefront frame of the stove will be concealed and the front of the stove will present a continuous decorative surface.

For the oven opening 16 I provide a door frame 39 which may be in the form of a light casting and whose outer side and edges are entirely covered by a predecorated panel 40. For the space 15, a door frame 41 is provided which is covered at the front and side edges by a predecorated panel 42, the door extending vertically from the stove top to the base and horizontally from the oven door to the left edge of the stove front frame 10.

For the closet space 20 I provide a door frame 43 whose outer side and edges are covered by a predecorated panel 44, this door extending from the right edge of the oven door to the right edge of the stove front frame 10. This door, when closed, also covers the frame 10 in front of the flue 19.

Below the oven door and above the base and between the doors 41 and 43, the stove front frame is covered by a predecorated panel 45. Between the oven door and the stove top, the flue passageway 27 is covered by a predecorated panel 46. Between this panel and the right edge of the stove and above the oven door and the door 43 is the closure member 47 which may be of panel form and which encloses the burner control structure (not shown) for controlling the burners 24. The base 12 may also be covered by a panel 48. The panels of all the doors and closures thus abut edge to edge and extend from the stove top to the bottom of the stove and form an uninterrupted continuous decorated surface which entirely conceals any part of the stove front frame 10 and the base. The stove is supported on legs 49 extending from the base, and

these legs may be ornamental castings.

Rising above the stove top from the side edges thereof are the vertical brackets 50 and 51 which support a gas bake oven structure 52, a gas broiler structure 53 and an intermediate compartment 54 which may serve to receive cutlery or other objects. These compartments or spaces are closed by suitable doors 55,56 and 5'7, respectively, which may be covered at their front and side edges by suitable decorated panels, which panels form a continuous decorated area. Between these upper compartments and the stove top, a splash panel 58 is supported by the brackets 50. Suitable handles 59 may be provided for the various doors. The various doors may also have inner or bafile walls 60, as shown in connection with the door 43. I thus produce a combination coal and gas range which is of compact and balanced construction and which can be conveniently and emciently used with coal or wood as fuel or with only gas as fuel, or with both coal and gas. When the hot water reservoir is desired to be used, it can be readily slipped into place within the warming closet 20, and, if the entire closet 20 is desired for heating or warming purposes, the reservoir can be readily removed.

I do not desire to be limited to the exact structure and arrangement shown and described, as modifications and changes can be made which will still come within the scope and principles of the invention. 1

I claim as my invention:

1. In a combined coal and gasrange, in combination, a stove top, coal burning means below part of said top, a gas burning compartment below the other part of said top, a bake oven partly below the coal heated stove top part and partly below the gas heated stove top part, a warming closet below said gas burning compartment, a flue between said warming closet and said oven, connecting said warming closet and said coal burning means, said flue comprising a pair of spaced walls providing said flue, one of said walls providing one of the walls of said warming closet, means for supporting a receptacle from the walls of said warming closet, and a gas burner in said warming closet.

2. A combined coal and gas range comprising a coal burning section on one side of the range, a gas burning compartment on the opposite side of the range having an end wall provided with supporting racks, a pair of spaced walls forming a flue, one of said walls forming the other end wall of said gas burning compartment and having supporting racks cooperating with said first supporting racks, a water container removably supported upon said racks, said flue carrying the products of combustion from the coal burning section to an outlet, an oven arranged adjacent said coal burning section, and said flue being arranged intermediate said oven tion.

JACOB TELLER.

and said gas burning sec- 

